Static Show.

 

 

This is the presentation and set up for the Private Static Show. As a collection I find the background too much but I think that my garment looks really interesting and unique, I really like the jacket and the little bit of texture that makes my garment slightly more interesting.

The Tears Series shoe collection.

I really like the outcome of the shoe collection. I made them quite a deep indigo to reflect the workers and they work directly in the polluted water. Because they are a lot darker than the dye on my garments I needed to add some ecru to link the garments nicely. This also reflects my inspiration of the traditional Chinese shoes which are simple and dainty that it why I though that the denim panel will emphasize the modern and minimal state against the messy dyed indigo.

Shoes Design.

So far, my shoes which are for the womenswear, menswear and childrenswear outfits have been dyed with my natural indigo dye. I wanted it to be a deep indigo colour to reflect the Xintang workers who dye jeans and underwear in the unsafe work environment. 

This photo shoes the texture and lighter shades of indigo that have been purposely done to give more depth visually. 

I do look what I have done so far i think it might have to put it against my outfit to see whether it flows nicely and doesn't look mis-placed. 

They do look slightly bare but it is the concept I have gone for, I may try to add denim thread underneath the shoes to give more of a water effect and to add that ecru colour- to make them work well as a whole outfit. 

I will need to find more inspiration. 

Jacket Evaluation.

What I have done so far is applying the thread from the denim by using the embroidery machine, I used this because I don't want the thread to look like it has been stuck down onto the jacket - I want it to flow like water and fall down from the jacket and I think so far I have achieved this. However, i think there does need to be more of this thread just to give a bigger impact, visually. The thread also shows my inspiration and references from designers that have used a similar style or theme to mine. 

The embriodery was cut out and then sewn on because i wanted to place it specific areas that I thought would look better rather than just placing a big piece of embroidery all together. I like this idea but there needs to be more that is why after doing some more experiments I can actually use a quicker technique to get the same effect as the embroidery. I am actually going to sew in-between the embroidery where it looks slightly too messy because the pattern gets lost. I will be using white because my whole collection does not have such a distinctive colour other than ecru. 

I can do the finishing touches at home because i have already done the overlocking where it is needed. 

Jacket Final Experiments.

My jacket is the show piece therefore it really needs to standout by the quality and visual aesthetics.
I really needed to final experiment samples in order to know that i have tried other techniques that can bring my jacket to higher scale of creativity.

I wanted to create something quite similar to my embroidery pattern to have a flowing texture all round.

The first image shows a freerer style that does look quite similar to the embroidery but i am worried it will look to busy and such a big piece of garment. I want something more thicker and defined.

The second image has a more zig-zig effect but it is thicker which I is what i am trying to achieve. If I push the fabric while it is sewing the gaps get bigger and the shape is more defined which is not what I am looking for but as you can see on the third image it can get thicker if i keep doing more layers on top of it and keep the speed similar all round.
I really like this because It will actually help neaten areas of my jacket to hide some dye that wasn't suppose to be there and I can sew like this around the gaps of my embroidery pattern just to add more texture and shape to the jacket.

I have used a normal blue thread but i know this won't look good on my jacket because the dye isn't as dark as this colour and I think it will hide away from the white thread that was used for the embroidery pattern.

Childrenswear T-shirt.

I really wasn't pleased with my first t-shirt for the children swear outfit - the size wasn't accurate, it was too big and the neck line was done properly.
I spoke to Kay for some guidance and my outcome is so much because now it looks a simple t-shirt that has been done at a better standard. I am going to keep the t-shirt as it is because i don't want too much detail to hide away the quality and purity of the outfit.

The Childrenswear outfit is finally complete and I am really pleased with the outcome because it flows well with the womenswear and menswear by dyed areas and similar style.

Embroidery and Embellishing.